HRSG

Expert HRSG Cleaning

Heat Recovery Steam Generator Cleaning

Advanced Indoor Air Quality Care (AIAQC) provides expert HRSG Cleaning (heat recovery steam generator) in the Northeast and Mid Atlantic regions. With over 20 years of experience in the industrial and commercial cleaning and restoration we provide a high lever of professional services. Please contact us for a free estimate.
Dry ice blasting has become the most popular and industry accepted practice in cleaning heat exchangers and coils in heath steam recovery generators. Heat exchangers are usually outside so they are highly susceptible such things such as pollens, dust and carbon residue. This build up can cause loss of efficiency of the exchangers and reduces the overall performance and life of the coils. Dry ice blast cleaning will remove these undesirable contaminants without any damage to the substrate This will ensure , your heat exchangers will yield a higher rate of efficiency and this will cause them to run cooler.

HRSG Cleaning

Debris and contaminant build up on a Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG) can be detrimental to efficiency, cost, and overall performance. HRSG’s are large heat exchangers that recover extreme heat from hot gas streams and create steam that can be used to power a steam turbine. They can be used in a variety of commercial and industrial applications. They come large or small, with some measuring as large as eighty feet tall and forty feet wide.

Over the years of use, these HRSG’s accumulate contaminants and debris on their fins, which are used to conduct heat. Even in small amounts, the contamination resists the transfer of heat through the fins, resulting in a loss of efficiency. If the contamination accumulates to a certain amount, plugging airflow, it may even block the flow of gas across the fins, which is an important part of the process. When there is a case of severe blockage the control unit senses back pressure and slows the turbine. Still, more efficiency is lost. All of this efficiency loss is not necessarily easy on the plant owners’ wallets. To avoid this loss, plant owners call upon professionals like Advanced Indoor Air Quality Care to clean the contaminants through Dry Ice Blasting and therefore boost efficiency. It has been said that for every ½ inch of pressure drop, a plant owner can save $100,000. This is why it is very crucial to keep HRSG’s contaminant free.

heat recovery steam generator – before & after

Cleaning HRSG’s with Dry Ice Blasting

Dry ice blasting is proven to be the best method of cleaning HRSG’s for many reasons. When the other options are considered, you soon learn why. First off, high pressure water blasting and soda blasting create a secondary waste stream, which contributes to the amount of waste. With water blasting, if not contained properly, the water carrying contaminates may flow down into drains or into the ground. The expenses for residual cleanup of both water blasting and soda blasting add to the overall cost and time of the process. Another inefficient method – sand blasting – will not work because the sand’s abrasive nature erodes the fin and tube metal and causes permanent damage. Also, blasting silica sand is a federal offense and may result in major fines.

The Benefits of Dry Ice Blasting in Power Plants

There are many benefits to dry ice blasting HRSG’s. First, with dry ice blasting, there is no secondary waste stream or foreign product introduced since, upon impact, the frozen CO2 (dry ice) sublimates to a gas. Therefore, the only residue to clean up is the debris and contaminants that were cleaned from the surface, minimizing the cost and time of the process. Also, dry ice blasting does not promote corrosion and abrasion, is USDA, FDA, and EPA approved, and is an environmentally safe process.

Expert Industrial and Commercial Cleaning

Advanced Indoor Air Quality Care is ISN safety certified and all employees completed extensive safety training and are OSHA certified. This includes CO2 blasting, CPR, first aid, fork lift, aerial lift training and more. Employees are also very experienced working with containment and high elevations and insure that the job is being done correctly and safely. A large New Jersey power plant engineer stated “I am very pleased with your work quality.” Advanced Indoor Air Quality Care has dry ice blasted hundreds of large and small projects and is the proud owner of a perfect safety record.